I didn't want to bag on sklearn (I've already bagged on pandas enough here), but for what it's worth I agree with you. It's, ahh, not the API I would've come up

I didn't want to bag on sklearn (I've already bagged on pandas enough here), but for what it's worth I agree with you. It's, ahh, not the API I would've come up with. It's what everybody has standardized on, though, and maybe there's some value in that.